Everybody from NASA to David Bowie has wondered if there’s life on Mars – and now we might have a precise place to look for ...

On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa ...

An imposing NASA probe scheduled to lift off as Australia sleeps might take the first real step toward finding out if ...

Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in ...

A mission that will investigate whether life could exist on an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon ...

Even if it doesn’t achieve this, however, the radar could find pockets of water trapped in the moon’s ice, “potentially habitable places in the ice shell,” says Schmidt. The spacecraft ...

Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed study of Europa, looking for potential places where it might host alien life.

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

If life exists in Martian ice deposits its survival would be tenuous, but there’s a case for sending future rovers there to ...

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? If our solar system turns out to be home to two habitable ...

The search for life in places other than Earth usually focuses on our neighbour Mars, a planet that’s technically in the “habitable zone” of our Solar System. But Mars is not an attractive ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket got the Clipper off-Earth, separating from the spacecraft an hour after launch. The Clipper is ...